Paula Paula

The film starts off outside a small farm near Rome, and the first thing we see is a mysterious man kill the farmer and steal his car. We then see the man drive up into the mountains but we are still not sure why. We then cut to the other three main characters of the film: Paula and Sergio are married and own the small house in the mountains where they only travel to at weekends and Lillian is Paula's sister, who just happens to be having an affair with Sergio. Cut forward a few scenes and we have Sergio going hunting, Paula going shopping and Lillian staying home to sunbathe. Lillian puts on the radio and we hear a news report a thief and murderer who has escaped from jail and is on the loose.

Raimunda, her daughter Paula and her sister Sole travel from Madrid to the windy and superstitious village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to visit the grave of their mother Irene, who died years ago in a fire with her husband. Then they visit Irene's sister Paula, an old senile aunt that raised Raimunda after the death of her parents that insists to tell them that Irene is alive and living with her; later, they go to the house of her neighbor and friend Agustina, who gives a support to Paula.